better a mile wide than an inch deep

Much of this letter is c&p'd from years past, because I'm a predictable person I guess.

Hello, I'm yasaman both here and on AO3! I am open to receiving treats!

Another year, another Yuletide! :D Thank you for signing up to write in one of my fandoms! I can't wait to see whatever you come up with, and with these fandoms, chances are I'll love whatever it is you choose to write. If my requests/prompts/details don't catch your interest, just remember that Optional Details Are Optional, and that I will be thrilled to get fic in any of these fandoms at all.

As far as my basic preferences go: I am okay with gen, het, slash, and femslash. If I've indicated a pairing preference in my request, don't feel pressured to write it! I'm a big gen lover, and I'll specifically note if there's a pairing I don't want to see with the characters I've requested. Also, a confession: I usually skim through sex scenes. I know, I know, what am I doing in fandom if I skim past the porn. But I am almost always way more interested in character interaction than in sexy times. Feel free to include sex scenes! I'd just really prefer that porn not be the whole point of the fic.

Things I love: happy endings, banter, subtle but meaningful declarations of love and/or trust, pining, characters finding home and family with each other, the smaller moments of domesticity or the calm before the storm, crossovers, detailed worldbuilding, lolz, feelings, women being complex and sometimes assholes, dudes being stoic yet simmering with repressed emotions, people being kind to each other in ways both obvious and not obvious, any number of forced intimacy situations (fake married! Undercover relationship! Surprise soul bond! Huddling for warmth! Oh no there’s only one bed! Sex pollen! I could go on, really), threesomes/sedoretu-style moresomes, and indulgent emotional hurt/comfort.

DNWs that apply in general: dark fic, character bashing, permanent character death of canon characters (this DNW does not apply to any canonical character deaths), non-con, infidelity, incest, alpha/beta/omegaverse fic, mpreg, harm to children beyond any such harm already referenced in the canon, being mean to robots, unhappy endings (that are not canonical, at least), issuefic (by which I mean dealing with racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia etc. or sexual orientation and/or identity being the focus of the fic), ageplay, infantilization, daddy/mommy kink, scat, watersports, extreme underage, humiliation or anything that would trigger secondhand embarrassment, gaslighting, mundane AUs, readerfic. I do not want any AI-generated or AI-assisted fic.

1. 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future - Any (Juice, Nine, Ten, Hubble, Worldbuilding)

Am I going to keep requesting this every year, no matter how many fics I get? Probably!

It has been years and many lovely Yuletide gifts, and I am still so utterly FASCINATED by the improbable and amazing and weird utopia Jon Bois has built with 17776 and now 20020. It’s a world that seems to be positively teeming with stories, and I have a frankly insatiable desire to read about any and all of them, hence why I keep requesting it for Yuletide. I do not actually care about football qua football; I like the country and centuries-spanning version of the game Jon Bois has extrapolated here, but you don’t have to make it the focus of anything you write.

Here are some storytelling angles I'd love to see explored:

What other bits of electronics or AI have gained their own sentience or significance, and who do they talk to? What was the first AI or satellite or machine to gain sentience, and how did they talk to humans? What was the reaction? There are no children anymore: how do the probes like Nine, Ten, Juice, and Hubble, or even our new James Webb Space Telescope, and any other satellites or computers, fill that void?

More specifically, I'd love to know more about Hubble in this universe! What are its hobbies and preoccupations? What has it seen out there in the vast universe these past millennia? Do other probes and satellites socialize a lot or not?

How do other parts of the world deal with immortality, what games do they play? Do our favorite probes know about them, are they into any of them other than football?

20020 opened up even more delightful possibilities. ACAB in our current hellscape, but I'd love to know what the cops of 17776's post-scarcity, utopian world do when boredom is the real danger, and how/if they interact with the probes. There's sharing interesting facts and stories of course, but do they get up to any more byzantine schemes to protect the public from the menace of boredom during their eternal lives? What does a "police" "procedural" look like in this context? I welcome all absurd and hilarious and touching takes on this!

What kind of art do people and probes like Nine, Juice, Ten, and Hubble make when they have eternity to make it?

For Worldbuilding, I’d love any glimpse at the first few years or decades after people stop dying. I’d also love a glimpse at the first or second century mark, when it’s presumably really sunken in for people, or maybe a look at the first generation of kids that grows up into a world without death, and a world without any more children.

I’d also love any takes on the first few “births” of a probe or satellite into sentience! How did people react? What was it like for those first probes and satellites?

Honestly, I’d be thrilled with you exploring just about any nook or cranny of this fascinating universe. I’d only ask that you maintain the source’s absurd yet optimistic and loving tone. Bittersweet and even a little elegiac is fine, I just don’t want anything grim or dark here. The world we’re living in right now has plenty of that. Also, do not feel the need to try any wild format/coding stuff the way Bois did if you don’t want to. A vanilla text story is more than enough for me. That said, don't feel the need to stick to a traditional story format! Given my worldbuilding request, I'd be thrilled by other formats too: epistolary, social media, Wikipedia entries, oral history, etc.

I've gotten some lovely gifts for this in past years, but like I said, I always want more! The world of 17776 feels so huge and so fascinating that I'm greedy. There are so many possible stories to tell here, about humans and immortality and the probes and what life can be without the fear of scarcity and death, and I would be thrilled with any one you choose, dear writer.

2. Super Supportive - Sleyca - Loh Alis-art'h, Jeneth-art'h, Ryada-bess (can feature any of these characters)

I'm up to date on things through the most recent Patreon chapter, so no worries about spoilers.

There's a lot I love about this very long story, including our main character Alden, the depth and breadth of the worldbuilding, the luxurious pacing, and the careful attention to what makes every character tick. The story itself gives me plenty of Alden and Stu, so I'm requesting a few characters we see much less of! Any missing scenes and backstories for any of these three characters would be more than welcome. Some possibilities:

We got a little of Alis's POV in the Thegund arc, but I'd love more, particularly just before she sends Alden to Mother. In Alden's POV, we get some hints about how much the situation is messing her up, so I'd love more of her POV on that, and from after she finds out Alden has survived. Does she talk to Mother about him? What's her thought process for the commendation she gives Alden? Who else does she talk to about it? Some more from her POV about the immediately aftermath of finding Alden and Kivb-ee would also be great.

The little bits of backstory we have for Alis and Jeneth's childhood and youth and their training as knights are grim but fascinating. I would love any exploration of that, and of how they get from there to ending up the Primary and the Quaternary, and building their idyllic-seeming siblinghold. I'd also love anything about the early days of how they start reforming the knighthood, or just their relationship to knighthood and their skills in general.

Jeneth looms large as Stu's father, but we truly know so little about him, apart from knowing about some of the impossibly difficult things he's had to do for/to his family: killing Stu's mother to save Stu, and offering Sina release. I'd love any exploration of his relationship with and fears for Stu in light of those things. Also, wow, he's the Primary, the most powerful knight in the universe. That seems like a lot of pressure! How does he handle it? What was the process of becoming the Primary like? Why/how did he choose his skill, and how does it reflect his character? Also, if Mother is so attentive and affectionate with the likes of Alden, what's the relationship between her and her most powerful knight like?

The recent bits of Ryada-Bess POV we've gotten have made me absolutely ride or die for her, so obviously I'd love more of her POV. She's in such a tough spot between her skill not being what she'd hoped for, her squad dynamic, her appealing authority aura, and the situation with Emban. It all makes me really feel for her, and for how she feels so unable to share her pain. I'd love to read anything exploring her character more. How/why did she make the choice to take the path of highest onus? What was it like for her to get that kind and compassionate letter from Alden? What was she really expecting from her skill, and why did she choose it?

3. Tuyo Series - Rachel Neumeier - Ryo inGara, Darra inKarano, Elaro inPorakario

Yesssssss canon OT3!!!! A v-shaped OT3, but still!! Anyway what if it was a triangle? :D? 

Seriously though, I would love more exploration of how this becomes a true marriage between all three of them, rather than Darra having two husbands. Whether you choose to keep things between Ryo and Elaro platonic or not, I want to see more of them navigating being brotherhusbands to Darra. I'd also just love to see more of the three of them together. They seem like they could make for a hell of a power throuple, so anything exploring that in the form of the three of them tackling a problem would be more than welcome. I'd also be perfectly happy with some sweet fluff about what it's like for them to be new parents to twins!

I'd especially appreciate Darra or Elaro POV, given how much Ryo POV we already have in canon. Not that I don't adore Ryo, it'd just be neat to see him more from an outside POV. It's somewhat hilarious how he always comes back after these absolutely wild adventures and has to, like, explain all that to them. How do Darra and Elaro handle that, and how do they talk about it with each other? Alternatively, what if it's Darra and/or Elaro's turn to go on an Adventure or Quest? How would Ryo handle being on the other side of things for once?